Tag: Lori Foster

Perhaps this is a sign that MMA has truly hit the mainstream, although it’s enough to make you wish it hadn’t. Lori Foster is a best-selling romance novelist who is apparently also a huge MMA fan. I guess it only makes sense that she would blend these two passions in her new novel My Man, Michael. But wait, it gets better. And by better I mean worse. Just check out this plot synopsis:

Michael thinks an injury will keep him from fighting again until a woman shows up and promises to heal him. But, he must travel with her and teach a community of woman warriors to fight in return. Imagine Michael’s surprise when she fulfills her end of the bargain and finds that, to fulfill his he must travel into the future!

Oh, good. A romance novel about MMA that also includes time travel. Nothing like a little half-assed science fiction to go with your clichéd plotlines and completely absurd dialogue. What’s not to love?

I don’t point this book out to bash Lori Foster or the romance novel genre in general, since doing so is like pointing out the stupidity of romantic comedies. Everyone knows they’re terrible, but they sell, so they’re allowed to continue. Instead, I point it out as a way of asking, why can’t we get a real MMA novel, the way there used to be real, awesome boxing novels, like The Professional and The Knockout Artist? Instead we get shit like this. Here’s an excerpt from the first chapter, just to piss you off: